LOGISTICS

Acquisition and Life-Cycle Management

TSM provides C-130, Trident submarine, and SSGN programs acquisition and life-cycle management support. Similar support has also been provided for the MC-130; AH-64; SH-60B; UH-60; AH-1; EP-3E; F/A-18; electronic warfare systems; missiles; ordnance; support equipment; and simulators.

This support includes:

• Review and analyze reliability and affordability documents to provide recommendations on emergent/existing discrepancies/deficiencies, priority assessments, and system problems
• Review modification planning documentation to determine existing subsystems compatibility
• Evaluate alternative designs for technical and cost considerations
• Review integrated logistics support and reliability/maintainability data for equipment availability and supportability within mean-time-to-repair and mean-time-between-failures constraints
• Review installation drawings and technical documentation to identify installation schedule impacts on mission schedules
• Identify support, test equipment, and spare parts availability problems
• Identify staging requirements for modification kit hardware, software, and documentation

Configuration change proposal documentation is analyzed to:

• Identify configuration-significant items and accomplish hardware/software installation periodic and special purpose physical configuration audits
• Identify and support acquisition of long lead-time items
• Evaluate system/subsystem performance reliability analysis and special studies made on operational demand and maintenance performance
• Evaluate safety-related problems and trends requiring resolution
• Monitor operational software programs certification, ensuring availability and verifying installation of the correct version